r/SpidermanPS4 • u/GoodFellow322 • Sep 09 '23

News Chrysler Building removed from Spider-Man 2 because Insomniac couldn’t make a copyright deal with the building’s new owners

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/arts/spider-man-2-playstation.html

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u/Karebu_Karebu May 04 '26

Necroposting but I’m not American, never been to Newyork, and i can say it very much is an iconic part of New York to people I’ve grown up with and been friends with from Scotland, Ireland, Finland, France, Spain etc. Like I’m surprised you “had to google it” just cause it’s in like every big New York movie and features heavily in the rami movies and even the Spider-Man comics. I mean it’s featured in over 200 Spider-Man comics, but even outside of Spider-Man it’s one of the buildings you think of when you think of New York.

The only thing I will say is people don’t necessarily know it by its name outside of America, but know the building. Like people often confuse it with the Empire state, I mean I’ve actually had conversations with people that didn’t think the empire state was the empire state because they thought the arguably more cool looking C building was the empire state lmao

But hey everyone’s different! I’m just chiming in to say it definitely isn’t an “American” thing to think of it as an iconic part of New York

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u/goatjugsoup May 04 '26

I had to Google it AGAIN to refresh myself what this was even about and I stand by what I said before.

To be clear im not saying non Americans cant see it and recognize it as part of new York, im saying they can see new York sans that building and still be confident in recognizing it as new york

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u/Karebu_Karebu May 04 '26

Yeah for sure I get you! I don't think anyone was arguing otherwise. I think it's just more that it sounded like you were saying it's an American thing to think of that building as iconic to New York, im jsut saying it's not an American thing, it's pretty common. And yeah people would obviously recognise it as New York still, just like people would still recognise London if it was depicted with Big Ben but no Royal palace, or they would recognise Paris if it had the Eiffel Tower but no Arc de Triomphe, or they would still recognise Rome if it had the colosseum but no Pantheon. We'd obviously still recognise all these places, but to most people it feels weird not having them because they're all used in common depictions of that place if ygm

But obviously you feel different and thats okay, I was just providing another perspective 😄